{"id":19101,"date":"2026-04-17T07:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eunews.top\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/foreign-offices-top-civil-servant-olly-robbins-forced-out-over-mandelson-vetting-row\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:59:54","slug":"foreign-offices-top-civil-servant-olly-robbins-forced-out-over-mandelson-vetting-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eunews.top\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/foreign-offices-top-civil-servant-olly-robbins-forced-out-over-mandelson-vetting-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Office\u2019s top civil servant Olly Robbins forced out over Mandelson vetting row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keir Starmer understood to have lost confidence in official over decision to override security vetting failure<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/apr\/16\/revealed-mandelson-failed-vetting-but-foreign-office-overruled-decision\">Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sir Olly Robbins, the UK Foreign Office\u2019s top civil servant, has been forced out of his post after the decision to fail Peter Mandelson during his security vetting was overruled by his department.<\/p>\n<p>Robbins was the Foreign Office\u2019s most senior official in late January 2025 when the decision was made, paving the way for Mandelson to become the US ambassador.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/apr\/16\/foreign-offices-top-civil-servant-olly-robbins-leaves-post-in-mandelson-vetting-row\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keir Starmer understood to have lost confidence in official over decision to override security vetting failure Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision Sir Olly Robbins, the UK Foreign Office\u2019s top civil servant, has been forced out of his post after the decision to fail Peter Mandelson during his security vetting was overruled by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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